Machine for molding baker&#39;s dough into loaves or cakes



March 19, 1929. 5, PEN TT, 1,706,127

MACHINE FOR MOLDING BAKERS DOUGH INTO LOAVES 0R CAKES Filed June 9, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 March 19, 1929. E, P T l 1,706,127

MACHINE FOR MOLDING BAKERS DOUGH INTO LOAVHS 0R CAKES Filed June 9, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Mar. 19, 1929.

UNlTED STATES E ZIO FENSOTTI, OF IYITLAN, ITALY.

MACHINE FOR MOLDIEFG BAKERS DOUGH INTO LOAVES OR CAKES.

Application filed June 9, 1924, Serial No.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved machine for mocha ically molding bakers dough into cakes or loaves all of one and the same'i'veight wl ich may be varied as desired. 3

Several types of machines d-e igned for this purpose have already been proposed, but none has come into extensive use in practice owing to various drawback An improved machine according to the present invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings wherein V Figure 1 is a side elevation of the entire machine.

Figure 2 is a front elevation thereof, the right hand half of the figure being shown in section taken along the line X Y of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a partial longitudinal section of the left hand upper partof the improved machine. 3

Figure 4 is a similar, but more complete section of the improved machine. 7

Figure 5 illustrates two forms of mold and a, spare ejector in the machine forthe different sizes of loaves.

The improved machine is driven by power by means of the pulley 1 carried by a shaft 30 driving a shaft 3 through the medium of two intermeshing toothed wheels 2, 2. The shaft 3 carries cams for actuatin the levers driving the various parts that effects the division of the dough into loaves and the ejection ofthe latter from the molds as will be here inafter more fully described.

The kneaded dough is charged in lumps of suitable size into the hopper t w 'ch is made of sheet iron or other metal or parallelepipedal form, and has fixed side walls.

The front wall of the hopper at is likewise lined, and in it is a rectangular aperture '5 extending throughout the width of its lower part. In front of this aperture the mold 7 is removably secured by mea l .is of two lateral bolts 6. The right hand rear wall of the hopper is constituted by a slide 8 adapted to move horizontally to-and-fro and a member 11. This slide is actuated by aiiexible lever 9, and it carries in front on its underside a plate 10 which constitutes the movable bottom of the front part of the hopper. On the slide therefis arranged the stepped member 11 which is carried alongwith the slide by means of two coiled springs 12. This member 11 is T adapted to yield to a pressure greater than 718 990, and in Italy December 53?, 1923.

the tension of the sprii 12 and under such conditions remains stationary while the slide continues moving forwardly.

Along the front wall of the hopper there is adapted to move to-and-fro vertica ly a knife blade 13 operated by two pairs of overs H and 15 and two rods 16, and in front of this knife there is arranged an ejector 1"? moved vertically by a pair of bell-crank levers 18 which has the function of expelling from the mold the leaves that are compressed and molded there As will he understood, the type of ejector must be changedto suit the type of mold.

In the practical embodiment of the invention illustrated the flexible lever 9 as pivotally mounted at 31 in the supporting frame structure 32 of the machine and is provided I with a roller 33 coacting with a cam on the shaft 3 and with a short arm 35 carrying a roller 36 also coacting with said can In this manner reciprocating movement is imparted to the slide 8 through the oscillating movement of the lever 9. The cutting stroke of the knife 13 is effected incident to depression of the levers 1d and 15 which is effected by a cam 37 acting against the lever 15 which latter pivotally mounted at 38 in the frame 32. The ascending movement of the knife is cfi'estcd by springs 39 acting against the lovers and 15. The bell crank lovers 18 actuating the mold 17 are pivotally secured at 40 to the sides of the hopper i and are actuated in one direction to withdraw the ejector from the mold by the tension of springs The dcscending movement of the ejector is effected by a cam all on the shaft The operation of the improved machine is as follows: At starting, the slide 8 and the stepped compressor 11 are both situated. at the right hand side of the machine, the knife 13 and the ejector 17 are in their highest positions, and the hopper is charged with dough the compressor then advnoes towards the left hand side and forces the dough from the hopper into the compartments of the mold. the stepped formation of the face of the com pressor facilitating the descent of the dough. At a certain point of its course the compressor encounters an obstacle or resistance. and it stops, but the lever completes its course by reason of, its flexibility, the knife descends and cuts off the loaves that have been compressed in the mold compartments from the mass of dough remaining in the hopper {and then the compressor moves back together with 21, scraper, and 22 is zrbrush, provided for the purpose of cleaning'the endless conveyor I hand 19.

, WVhat I claim is I 1. In a machine of the character descriled, 2t hopper, a compressor reciprocally mounted in the hopper composed of two parts superimposed one upon the other, spring means connecting the two parts together, a flexible actuating lever for the compressor, a removable and interchangeable'mold arranged to receive materials from the hopper, a cuttingblade adapted to sever the materials ejected from the hopper from'thet remaining therein, and means for ejecting material from the mold;

i it machine as claimed in claim 1, in which the compressor comprises a sliue connected with the flexible lever, a stepped member movably mounted on the slide and spring means normell resisting relative movement of the slide and stepped member.

In testimony whereof I have name to this specification.

EZIO rnnsorri,

signed my 

